Top Wine Travel Tip:Become a local. Speak their language (or try), eat their food, drink their wines.
Bucketlist Goal :Saber a bottle of Champagne on horseback.
Mark Stock is a writer from Portland, Oregon, who is now based there. He spent a decade making, selling, and cleaning up wine in the Willamette Valley in between penning stories for a host of regional and national outlets. He adores Iceland, brown trout, aquavit, and grunge rock.